In 2015, I was lucky enough to interview the Japanese musician–composer–artist Ryuichi Sakamoto while he was promoting the score he’d just contributed to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant. When asked if there were any filmmakers he’d love to work with, he responded: “I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It’s my dream to work with him.” A decade later, both maverick geniuses are no longer with us, and the dream of a collaboration was never realized. (Still, they were each separately able to release career-capping masterpieces—Godard’s final feature The Image Book and Sakamoto’s last solo album async.) The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is now in the last month of “seeing sound, hearing time,” the first comprehensive exhibition that focuses on Sakamoto’s large-scale three-dimensional audio–visual installations. Collaborators on some of the works include the German electronic musician Carsten Nicolai and the Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This is an essential visit for anyone who’s in Tokyo in March. For those unable to make it, the 2017 documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda provides a window into one of the great artists of our time. —Spike Carter